Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Intel: The iPad Isn’t New, and This Isn’t Our First Rodeo
While the iPad fervor has died down to a certain extent (and the shine has started to come off the Apple), from time to time you can see the religious nature of people’s iPad evangelism come out. Take for instance, today, a throwaway article that showed up today Computerworld: Some companies have already shown off ...
Light Peak: Intel’s (Possibly) 30Gps Successor to USB 3.0
Engadget has the story today (and PC World has more details) on what may end up being the possible successor to USB for modern computing. “…while Intel is still dragging its feet regarding USB 3.0, it’s planning to have Light Peak fiber optic devices in the market next year. Intel insists Light Peak isn’t meant ...
Most People Don’t Mind Twitter’s New Promoted Tweets [InfoGraphic]
Erick Schonfeld highlighted on Techcrunch yesterday a survey from “Twitter Sentiment” that indicated that over 71% of Twitter users hated the idea of “Promoted Tweets.” What wasn’t explicitly mentioned in the post was that the statistics and graph generated by Twitter Sentiment was based on the survey results, according to the accompanying graphic, of 14 ...
The Chair of the IAWTV Comments on #StreamyFail
Yesterday, Michael Sean Wright posted perhaps the most scathing review of the Streamys online broadcast of any I’ve seen, and I’ve been watching the wreckage from that trainwreck picked apart by the blogosphere and twittersphere since it happened. Today, the chairman of the board essentially told all those who’d listen that the producers of the ...
Microsoft Set to Unveil “Project Pink” Shortly
Right now, Microsoft has gathered several dozen of their closest friends in the press to make an announcement about the upcoming Windows Mobile development track that’s been running under codename “Project Pink.” According to Ina Fried at the event: The pair of slider phones, each with a touch screen and keyboard, can be thought of ...
Palm is Hurting, But Their CEO Keeps it Real [Infographic]
Remember Palm? I do. Some of my first mobile smart phone experiences as an independent developer and as a user were on the Palm platform. Look around, though, and you’ll barely see any Palm devices, and the carriers are having trouble giving the devices away. A friend of mine has a conference coming up this ...
Radical Transparency and Fourstalking
I’ve been playing with my new Windows Mobile phone I got as a gift from my wife last week (more on that later, suffice it to say that I love this thing), and a feature that’s new for me is having GPS on a mobile device. The phone I was using up until a couple ...
Browser Noise: Firefox Wins on Buzz, Chrome Wins on User Joy [Infographic]
Truism: Internet Explorer sucks, in terms of user experience. Want another? Firefox’s spread across the web is due almost entirely due to the buzz generated by it’s users. This is the sense that we all had who sit around pontificating about these sorts of things on a daily basis. The folks over at ViralHeat have ...
Millennial Media Releases their iPad SDK
News showed up in FierceMobile this morning that Millennial Media is one of the first companies to create a monetization kit for iPad applications (and beating out others, like AdMob-Google): Mobile advertising firm Millennial Media announced the imminent release of its PadMedia Creative Suite and related SDK, promising a suite of new ad formats optimized ...
What is Success? The Anti-iPad Manifesto.
As you may know, I’m not particularly known for my fandom of the iPad. I’ve heard a number of pundits (Robert Scoble and Daisy Whitney immediately spring to mind) say that now that they’ve played with the iPad, they definitely feel that the device is a lot less of a laptop replacement device, and much ...
